I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think fans acknowledged the effort I have made as a solo artist and as a member of Bigbang throughout the years.… — Taeyang Copy Share Image
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
I want so many artists that I care about to go away and grow up, and have been amazed at how hard… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I think art's role is to investigate the way things are comprehended - the lenses through which people see. In conflict, these… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
“There are men who, at the bottom of the ladder, battle to rise; they study, struggle, keep their wits alive and eventually… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I don't watch TV. Only while I'm doing it do I see it, really. So I don't know anything. I only know… — Greg Cipes Copy Share Image
One of the things that happens a lot in mixed martial arts and fighting in general is that fighters are played against… — Jon Fitch Copy Share Image
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
“I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“and honesty is the hardest part yeah honesty is the highest art and honestly i myself just started and eureka i’m less… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and… — Shirley Eaton Copy Share Image
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. — Childe Hassam Copy Share Image
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen. — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
What is love? In math, its problem. In history, its war. In science, its reaction. In art, its heart. In me, its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality,… — Afeni Shakur Copy Share Image
Collaborating with other artists is an emotional thing. Obviously, you don't do it unless this person inspires you. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
People make films for different reasons. For money. Or, they make them because something in them demands artistic expression. I do it… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
“Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, "once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art.” — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and… — Michele Zackheim Copy Share Image
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
